Yolanda Hadid Quotes

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Friends are born, not made.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I have really great friends.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.

Thank God I have the right friends.

If I can get together once a month with eight people I hold dear, that's a real win to me.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.